demylus

Updated: May 10, 2025

Zeno, the disciple of Parmenides, having attempted to kill the tyrant Demylus, and failing in his design, maintained the doctrine of Parmenides, like pure and fine gold tried in the fire, that there is nothing which a magnanimous man ought to dread but dishonor, and that there are none but children and women, or effeminate and women-hearted men, who fear pain.

Plutarch - Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

One person of a majestic appearance Pluto, I suppose it was sat reading out the names of those who were due to die, their term of life having lapsed. The young man took me and set me before him, but Pluto flew into a rage: "Away with him," he said to my conductor; "his thread is not yet out; go and fetch Demylus the smith; he has had his spindleful and more." I ran off home, nothing loath.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

And he also affirms that there is much necessity intermixed. I let pass, how inconsiderate it is to compare such accidents befalling honest and good men, as were the condemnation of Socrates, the burning of Pythagoras, whilst he was yet living, by the Cyloneans, the putting to death and that with torture of Zeno by the tyrant Demylus, and of Antiphon by Dionysius, with the letting of bran fall.

Plutarch - Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

My fever had now disappeared, and I told everybody that Demylus was as good as dead. He lived close by, and was said to have some illness, and it was not long before we heard the voices of mourners in his house.

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